octavilla
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /oɡtaˈbiʝa/ [oɣ̞.t̪aˈβ̞i.ʝa]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /oɡtaˈbiʎa/ [oɣ̞.t̪aˈβ̞i.ʎa]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /oɡtaˈbiʃa/ [oɣ̞.t̪aˈβ̞i.ʃa]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /oɡtaˈbiʒa/ [oɣ̞.t̪aˈβ̞i.ʒa]
- (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝa
- (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎa
- (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃa
- (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒa
- Syllabification: oc‧ta‧vi‧lla
Noun
octavilla f (plural octavillas)
- Piece of paper of size 11 × 16 cm, half that of a cuartilla
- (politics) leaflet, flyer
- (poetry) a poem of eight lines consisting of two redondillas which share rhymes
See also
- arte menor
- cuarteta
- cuartilla
- métrica
- quintilla
- sextilla
- tercetillo
Further reading
- “octavilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014